The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-19
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The president wears lf@2-hlcn Cohai anu q
| No. IL shoe.
ONE FACTORY in Newark, N. j., turns out
| 15J,0 600 cokscrews in year.
HuGo Hue married Miss Emma Frank at In
dauapos. What girl could resist fellow with
such a name.
TIE Dominion government will soon send a
carload of lobsters to the Pacific coast for prop
agating purposes.
The South Sea Islands, at their last mis- SION
airy meeting raised 81 ,531 for a new yacht to
carry the Gospel to New Guinea.
LINUS JONES PECK, of st. Clair Mich, has been
on a moose hunt in Canada, and, to prove that
he killed moose, brought back pair of ant
! lers They weigh thirty-six pounds and are
tipped with twelve prongs each, having spread
of ii inches
A DEER hunter in the Florida pine woods re-
Gently shot buck that carried brand put on
him eleven years ago, when he was caught by y
settler, branded with his cattle brand ana
turned loose.
ARIZONA is about to operate q dam which IN
magnitude surpasses anything in the country.
The reservoir viii store 5000, 100000 gallons OF
water for irrgating thousands or acres OF
placer and grazing lands.
AT Grand Forks, Oak, Halvor Bentrue put a
lighted pipe in his pocket which contained a
burned Mr.. Bentrue SO badly that one OF his
arms will haveto be amputated.
The Princess of Wales has consented to be-
come the patroness of the ladies' department of
| Kings College, England. This department was
| established eight years ago, and the lectures
are now attended by 400 women,
THE collection at a church in Bornemouth,
Eng, on a recent Sunday was divided as to
purpose by the givers as follows: For harvest
| festival, EGO 12s. I'd; for church expenses, tlo
| lbs, 3d.; for the poor, FL lis. I'D
Two fin-back whales were caught in a weir at
Campobello, Me-, last week. One escaped be-
fore low water. but the other was killed. He
was % feet long and feet through, and estl-
| mated to yield ten or twelve barrels of oil
II Jud Marshall, of Ionia, Mich, could sell his
barber shop he would be in Tennessee inside of
four days. He has just heard from his relatives
| for the first time since he was slave. and was
sold away from them forty three years ago, and
| they are all in Tennessee and well-to-do.
E. A. MEAREs, of East Saginaw, is said to have
fallen heir to an estate of So, 100000 in Ireland.
He was a laborer and now he is landlord. a
correct diagram of his sensations before and
after he heard of his luck, might make good
campaign document in the United Kingdom.
| MONDAY the City Council of Dubuque rejected
| the petition to have the saloons closed on Sun
day, saying there was no ordinance against
them being open. The prohibitory law, they
said, was State enactment, and the response
bility for its enforcement rested with the State,
not the Council.
| JAMES GILcHRIsT, who has drilled the gas
| wells at Knghtstown, Ind, contracted with the
trustees of the Soldiers Orphans Home to drill
| for and supply that institution with natural gas
| for the period of one year for a sum less than
| the cost of coal for the same period The vel
| becomes the property of the home at the ex
| piration of the contract.
BUT you may be entertaining an angel
madam said Tom O'Brien, tramp, to Mrs
| Pyburn, of New Albany, Sunday Yes yoU
| smell like one long dead, assented the lady
meditatively, but I'll let the Pyburn before III
| set it up for you, nevertheless" Then he went
and is eating locusts and wild honey in the coun
ty jail.
FRANCE DE LAUNE, of Sharsted Court, county
| Kent, has attracted to himself the admirine
eyes of the British nation by successfully raising
| and harvesting a crop of tobacco. 1t is SAID tC
be the first ever raised in England. The gov
| eminent has graciously given consent that he
shall go on with his experiment, but insists thai
| he must pay duty on his crop the same as
| though the tobacco were imported.
THE indications are that there is a considera
BILE Increase in the value of property in the
State of North Carolina, as compared with las
year This is shown by the reports from the
| counties so far received. The last Legislature
| reduced the rate of taxation from 25c. to 20c
per 500 valuation of property, so that tbs
amount of taxes, even at the increased valua
ton, Will be smaller than last year.
THE wife of prominent citizen of Birming
ham, Conn, caught fourteen pounds of black
fish in front of her seaside cottage at Ansonia
the other day, and would have caught more if {
| twopounder hadn't broken her tackle. But th,
fish didn't get away for, when she saw thai
there was danger that he would, she waded into
| the water, and, using her skirts a landing net
brought the fish in triumph to the shore.
JUST in front of the spot where Presiden
Cleveland stood in the room of the Board o.
Commissioners in the City Hall of Philadelphia
| when he received the public at the recent Cen
tennial, there is threadbare spot in the carpet
1t was formed by the people marching up Il
him, shaking hands. and then turning TOWARD
| the exit. Many Thousand feet shutlling in thai
turn wore the carpet to threads in few hours
THE Normal diapason" has been adopted
this month for the bands of the German army
This is the same pitch used in the French army
and makes probably the only feature of har
mony between the two countries English sol
| ders still march TO music pitched in what j:
known as the English diapason, although thai
was abandoned several years ago by many
| English orchestras including that of the Roya
Italian Opera.
THE First Surrey Rifles, of the British Army
| are giving burlesque performance of Buffalo
| Bills Wild West show. II was given first al
| Wimbledon, and was SO successful that it had
| to be repeated before the Duchess OF Albany
| Lord and Lady Vantage, and other distin-
| gushed spectators and now the soldiers are
giving it a. a prelude to their promenade con.
certs. Whereat a London paper regretfully re
marks that Nothing is sacred to the satirist or
the burlesquist."
A FINE FLOODED BULL belonging to Mr. Con
den, a farmer of Cass county, was bitten by
dog several days ago. Yesterday it became sud
denly mad, and, tearing across the field, goreC
about dozen fine heiIers, valued at over 81 800
| 1t then jumped a high fence, and started fol
| Logansport. Two of Condens hired hands who
| witnessed the unusual actions of the animal
mounted horses and pursued him to within one
mile of the city, wher they shot him Just as he
was making for party Of children who were
| out nutting.
GOOD and faithful servant is Fred Schultes
He has been guarding the premises of Miltor
| Shook, of Bethany, Gratiot county. Mich, anC
| when a couple of thieves were stealing that gen
tleman's corn, the other night, he came dowr
| on them like hawk on a June bug They
| wanted to give up the corn, but he said no. Then
| they offered So to settle. and he said no again
| What would he do? He would take $40 for the
| eight bushels they had in their wagon. They